Built for Winnipeg businessman W. J. Boyd in 1912, on a design by local architect J. D. Atchison, this nine-storey structure sat on the western periphery of the downtown business district until the Hudson’s Bay Company built its department store west of it, in 1925. Then as now, it had retail space on the street-level floor with professional and business offices on the upper floors. Some of its occupants have included the Manitoba Medical Association, Winnipeg Supply and Fuel, Hollinsworth Ladies’ Wear (1917-1972), Willson’s Business Services, Monarch Life Assurance Company, Metropolitan Life Company, Canada Department of Agriculture, Professional and Business Women’s Club, and numerous physicians and dentists. It is now a municipally-designated historic site.

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